On Saturday 04 June 2005 07:34, Noel McG. wrote: > Hello, > > I have just loaded Adobe Reader. However I do not seem able to find/start > the programme. > > How do I get a shortcut on the desktop and associate the reader with .pdf > files please. > > Thanks for your help.
If you installed it with the RPM package from Mandrake Club it will be in your menu under Menu>Office>Publishing>Acrobat To get a desktop icon just drag it out of the menu and onto the desktop. If you installed it from the Adobe site there will be no menu item. The executable is called acroread and will be somewhere like /usr/local, or /opt You can create a desktop link by right clicking on the desktop. To associate acroread with pdf docs Menu>System>Configuration>ConfigureDesktop>Components>FileAssociations Enter pdf in the search box, select the result and in the right hand side move acroread to the top of the list of applications. It it is not present add it to the list. Thats it. derek BTW: Acroread 7 is spyware. Documents may have scripts embedded to make acroread report back every time you read them. To stop it you must configure Acroread to disable javascript. None of the OpenSource pdf viewers are spyware. -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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